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Will have to be address fundamental theres going to be an agreement. that will be critical if hes going to manage their response. >> so we may be giving, you may be giving the president too much credit, but what i hear you saying is that if there is going to be a new two-state solution between israel and the palestinians, a new state of palestine living alongside israel, israel is going to have make some very painful concessions. by what the president has just done, hes gone above the head perha...

Great deal for the israelis and a great deal for the palestinians. we are not taking a position of any final status issues including the specific boundaries of the israeli sovereignty in jerusalem or the resolution of contested borders. those questions are up to the parties involved. the united states remains deeply committed to helping facilitate a peace agreement that is acceptable to both sides. i intend to do everything in my power to help forge such an agreement. without question, jerusalem...

Your words would be a kiss of death for a two-state solution, israel and palestine. why? >> because jerusalem is at the very heart of the two-state solution and it has been the u.s. long held position all these years, it was in writing by secretary baker who invited us the palestinians by a written letter that the u.s. would commit to international resolutions 24338. thats land for peace. the end of israels occupation that begun in 1967. that includes jerusalem and the state will be reestablishe...

Jerusalem, until then had been controlled by jordan. the annexation of east jerusalem, which displaced many palestinians muslims and christians was never recognized by the international community, and this is one factor of preventing palestinian/israeli peace talks from moving forward. its not the only one, but many people say that without resolving jerusalem, youre not going to get peace between these two countries. nevertheless in 1980, israel passed a law calling jerusalem the complete and un...

Camp david accords in 1979 partially to help ease the peace process in the hopes of obtaining a two-state solution between israelis and palestinians. that is predicated on east jerusalem being the capital of a palestinian state. in 1995, president clinton signed the embassy act which required the u.s. embassy to be moved from tel aviv to jerusalem. but the act included a waiver signed by the president every six months delaying the embassys move. and every president since then has signed that wai...

National security correspondent. you were listening very closely. what did you hear? >> reporter: it was a nuanced statement from the president. but the fact is he did say something that previous presidents democrat and republican have not said about jerusalem. theres a reason that they have not despite the passage of this legislation some 20 years ago because the view is among both parties here in the u.s. but also u.s. allies and adversaries, china russia, is by making that statement youre pre...

Character, that we would see elements of apartheid develop, that we would see illiberal democratic state with arab -- i wont call them citizens but with arabs and palestinians living in the country under occupation forever. i think donald trump changed the game a lot by what he just gave because he gave israel one of its chief goals and prizes without israel performing in any way towards a two-state solution. its a remarkable dedeparture from the past. >> joel ruben, numerous countries have warn...

Israel. while previous presidents have made this a major campaign promise, they failed to deliver. today, i am delivering. >> the presidents decision begins the process of re-locating the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem, a move that administration officials say could take at least three to four years, so a waiver signed by the president will keep the embassy in tel aviv for now. palestinian officials who want to see east jerusalem as their own capital as part of any two-state solution th...

Thats not going to stop. to me, wolf, the issue is this. and you and i have covered this for so long. the chances of a two-state solution are shrinking all the time. the palestinians already understand that about 5% of the west bank is already going to go to israel. thats where the vast majority of settlements are. whats at issue is, israel keeps going beyond that 5%, and settling in more and more densely populated palestinian areas. once that gets far enough, the possibility of a two-state solu...

Impossible, for the palestinians to even come back to the table to seek a fine settlement to some of these outstanding issues including the status of jerusalem. >> do we even know this is whats going on right now because this puts their safety in jeopardy? >> well, it certainly does. and youve heard a divide within israeli society. the former israeli prime minister baruch wrote an op-ed be safe from themselves. this is a very extreme government that weve had under the leader of prime minister be...